Families reunite during Gratiot's Fourth of July celebration

1:03 AM,
Jul. 5, 2013

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Written by

Patrick O?Neill
Staff Writer

The latest census listed the population of Gratiot at 221, but you'd never have guessed that while walking down Main Street on Thursday afternoon during the Fourth of July parade.

Hundreds of people lined the streets, many in collapsible chairs, balancing a young child or two on their knees.

As the West Muskingum Fighting Tornado marching band made its way down the street to "America the Beautiful," Samantha Hydell, of New Concord, looked on with her 90-year-old grandfather, and the newest addition to her family - 1-year-old nephew Isaiah Adams. ...